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From: Rick the Mouseherder (no email)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 09:47:55 EDT
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=I'm in the middle of reading Tom Neal's book about cruising.
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What strikes me as odd about that book is how little it sounds like Tom
Neale the Sail magazine writer. His book is staid, humorless, and even a
bit mean spirited or grumpy, completely unlike his columns.
But what sets Tom's book off from other boat books is that Tom's focus is
not on cruising, but living aboard. His boats are really just water bourn
doublewide trailers that he drags from one trailer park anchorage to
another. Mostly his cruising is limited to poking along the ICW with an
occasional quick trip to the Bahamas and anchoring for long periods--months
on end. His emphasis, therefore, is on spacious if not lavish living
accommodations and is enormously systems driven--gensets, lots of AC,
freezers, reefers, etc.
I'm not saying that his approach is wrong, that Tom lacks experience, or
that his advice isn't good. I'm just saying that his book has a bias that
doesn't really suit long-term, ocean spanning cruisers. Which means that,
in reality, most of us on this list should buy Tom's book and follow his
example and dump the Pardeys as a role model.
Rick
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Cabo San Juan, Puerto Rico
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